Shaft oil seal



y 6, 1947- F. D. FRISBY ETAL 2,420,040

SHAFT OIL SEAL Filed July 13, 1945 5 I )NVENTOR.

Frank D. Frisbl/ "v Melvin N NaUen Patented May 6, 1947 SHAFT OIL SEAL Frank D. Frisby and Melvin W. Marien, St. Louis,

Mo., asignors to Ramsey Accessories Manufacturing Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application July 13, 1945, Serial No. 604,917

4 Claims. (c1. 286-) Our invention has relation to improvements in shaft oil seals and it consists in the novel features of construction more fully set forth in the I specification and pointed out'in the claims.

The sealing device comprises a ring assembly for application to shafts of turbines and other high speed rotary devices operating between 4,000

' and 15,000 R. P. M.s, and has for its principal object the sealing of the shaft housing to prevent the escape of oil. A further object is to provide a sealing device that will insure a circulation of .the oil through the seal by a pumping action that will draw the atomized oil from the housing and force it back to the crank-case or oil well as the case might be. These objects as well as others inherent in the invention will be better apparent from a detailed description of the invention, in

connection with the accompanyin drawings, in

which- Figure 1 is a middle vertical section of a housing showing our improved sealing device applied thereto; Figure 2 is a side elevation of the sealing device with parts broken away; Figure 3 is a cross-sectional detail on an enlarged scale taken on the line 33 of Figure 2; Figure 4 is-a vertical longitudinal section taken on a plane indicated by the line 4-4 on Figure 3; and Figure 5 is a cross-sectional detail taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 4 and showing only the ring (the cage ably T-shaped having a base 4 and flange 5, the

former embracing shaft S. The metallic ring components 3, 3 are designed to place the component 2 under slight compression so that it will firmlygrip shaft S and adhere thereto while it is in motion.

The components 3, 3 fit snugly between flange 5 and side walls 6,5 of cage I so that said flange 5 will also be under slight compression. The

pressure thus imposed on the component 2 by.

components 3, 3 will insure that all these components will rotate with the shaft S as a unit and within cage I. It will be observed (Figs. 2 to- 5 inc.) that there are a plurality of equally spaced holes I in both components 3 which are in register, and all but one of which also register with holes 8 in component 2, said holes 8 being slightly larger than holes I because of the compressibility of component 2. At onepoint in its circumference the COmpOZ ent 2 is provided with oppositely disposed bosses 9, 9 instead of a hole 8. These bosses 9, 9 project into alining holes I, I in components 3, 3 and serve to lock said components to the component 2.

We provide an oil drainage slot I 0 in the circumferential wall ll of cage I; and a drainage port l2 in housing H leading to the slot l0 through which excess oil will flow from the annular space C between the sealing ring components 2' and 3 and cage I.

In the operation ofour invention the rapidly rotating shaft S throws oil outwardly under centrifugal action, some of which becomes atomized so that the housing H becomes filled with finely divided oil particles. Since the ring components 2 and 3 rotate within cage I at the same speed at which shaft S rotates a suction is created within cage l and this atomized oil is sucked through holes I and 8 to maintain a thorough lubrication between the ring components 3, 3 and cage walls 6,3. In order to obtain a high unit pressure between the ring components 3 and cage walls 6 whereby the oil flow may be held to a minimum, I provide channels [3, l3 on the outer faces i4, ll of components 3, 3. This reducesthe contact surfaces between components 3, 3

and walls 6, 6 to the narrow surfaces [5, l5 and l6, l6, and greatly increases the sealing effect of components 2 and 3 and at the same time insures adequate lubrication between these components and cage I.

During the operation of the apparatus equipped with our sealing device, the passage of oil through the, passages i3, 13 will be impelled bythe cen-- trifugal force caused by the high rotation speed to flow past the surfaces i 5, i5 into the annular space C of the cage I.

Any excess of oil that finds its way into cage I will be vented through slot in and drainage port l2.

Having described our invention, we claim:

1. A shaft oil sealing device comprising a cage and a ring assembly mounted on said shaft and rotatable within said cage, said ring assembly comprising a resilient component embracing the shaft and rigid components on each side of the resilient component having sliding contact With the cage, and registering oil passageways in all three of said components. v

2. A shaft oil sealing device comprising a cage and a ring assembly mounted on said shaft and rotatable within said cage, said ring assembly comprising a resilient component embracing the shaft and rigid components on each side of the resilient component having sliding contact with the cage, and registering oil passageways in all three of said components and means for venting surplus oil from said cage. 3. A shaft oil sealingdevice comprising a cage and a ring assembly mounted on said shaft and rotatable within said cage, said ring assembly comprising a resilient component embracing the shaft and rigid components on each side of the.

resilient component havin sliding contact with the cage, and registering oil passageways in all Number resilient component having sliding contact with the cage, and registering oil passageways in all three of said components, and means for locking said components together.

FRANK n. F'RISBY. MELVIN w. MARIEN.

REFERENCES crrnn .The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date 2,393,779 Hunter Jan. 29, 1946 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 388,052 British 1933 699,736 German 1940 321,274 British 1929 318,775

British 1929 

